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Understanding Passover: Significance for Christians and Jews

Cindy Dawson

Passover has significant meaning for Christians and Jews alike. Passover begins before sundown on Saturday, April 12, 2025.

Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, is a pivotal Jewish holiday commemorating the Israelites’ liberation from slavery in ancient Egypt. Now Passover commemorates the liberation from slavery to sin for all who trust and follow Jesus.

At the first Passover, Moses told the people of Israel to slaughter a lamb (Exodus 12:21, 42) and spread its blood on the entrances to their homes in Egypt (Exodus 12:7). The blood protected the people from God’s wrath. Every subsequent Passover likewise required the sacrifice of a lamb.

The ancient Passover feast has always foreshadowed the ultimate atoning work of Christ’s shed blood on the cross as the full and final payment for our sins.

“For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.  Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 1 Corinthians 5:7-8 NIV

Jesus Christ is our Passover lamb. Just as lambs were slaughtered during the Passover to atone for sin, Jesus died for the same purpose. His blood was sacrificed for us on the cross to deliver us from sin.

“… it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed …  but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect. He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.” 1 Peter1:18-21 NIV

He saved us by causing the wrath of God to “pass over” our sins.

“Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!” Romans 5:9 NIV

“God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith.” Romans 3:25 NIV

“The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, ‘Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!'” John 1:29 NIV

“All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.” Revelation 13:8 NIV

Shalom to all!

In His Love, Cindy

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Psalm 122:6

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7 thoughts on “Understanding Passover: Significance for Christians and Jews”

  1. Passing from sin and darkness into the light of His redemption is such a wonderful gift, this is what it means to not be able to out give God. To see the eyes of one who sees this is a wonderful gift from God also. It is what keeps missionaries on the job even when they are old. The fields are still full of harvest, we are all missionaries in our own back yard, or wherever our Lord causes us to travel.

    Thanks Cindy, I was very disappointed to get this years calendar from the bank and there were no Jewish holidays on it, This was the first in the over 40 years since we have banked with them, the calendars list other religious holidays but no Jewish. Very sad.

    Blessings to you Beloved of the Lord.

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  2. Great post Cindy. It is so important to see Christ all through the Old Testament, especially the Passover. On a side note, it is interesting that in Portuguese (My second language) that Passover and Easter share the same identical word: Páscoa. Have a blessed Passover and Palm Sunday!

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